Ivy-Leaguers Behaving Badly

Ivy League bad behavior has been in the news of late. The recent scandals at Yale and Dartmouth have dominated the web (well, college websites especially). We wondered-- what other scandals have plagued the Ivy League?

Plenty, we soon found.

Check out our slide show of Ivy Leaguers Behaving Badly, and then tell us, what do you think of the spate of scandals afflicting the Ivory Tower? Weigh in below!

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[DebiAtHP]

02:52 PM on 02/02/2012

My son is top of his class, Pop-eye SAT's, and a great resume. We can afford whatever at this point, but he has over a quarter million in scholarships sitting on the table as of today. We went to all the local dog and pony shows for the Ivy's and he noted what kind of people were in the room. We went online and looked at some of the links between the colleges and some of the nasty behaviour on wall street and he decided to walk away from that world. He applied to and was accepted to colleges that better reflected his value system which included a highly ranked west coast school, but none of the Ivy's. We are so proud of his choices, and look forward to him revealing his final choice.

[hopein2012]

07:38 PM on 02/04/2012

what kind of people were in the room? what does that even mean?

[treabeton]

05:24 PM on 02/05/2012

I hear a loud helicopter circling.

[Thordeer]

09:34 AM on 02/02/2012

They're ready to be bank CEOs now.

[Crispaccio]

07:36 PM on 02/04/2012

no kidding. it's bizarre that this is the education necessary to become a corporate executive.

[Anti BandwagonIdi0ts]

10:23 PM on 02/01/2012

Idk whether we should pity the victim or yell at him for not exercising control over himself and what goes on around him. He's an adult. After coming out of it, where is the adult now?

[novabird]

06:31 AM on 02/04/2012

Psychologically scarred for life.

[treabeton]

04:55 PM on 02/01/2012

Oh sure. Another article beating up on the underprivileged.

[ricchh]

12:33 PM on 02/01/2012

Half of these stories are years old.

[RJB Boston]

11:37 PM on 01/31/2012

the only thing not surprising is the columbia drug ring

[EStreetShuffler]

02:55 PM on 02/01/2012

Yeah, aren't a lot of drugs brought in from Columbia?

Or am I thinking of someplace else???

[Mark Santeramo]

11:04 PM on 01/31/2012

lol, I don't understand why anyone would do anything like that for friends.

For humanity, I am going to give the benefit of the doubt and say that the above description may not be 100% accurate, but if it is than I have no clue why anyone would do this, again, for friends. I mean, I think frats in general are for ****, but this takes it to another level of absurdity to the fullest.

[JerseyWrites]

07:24 PM on 02/03/2012

You know, I frequent Huffington Post for both quality reporting and generally enlightening comments, but as a proud Greek, I'm insulted that you are willing to cast all of us in the same light. Its close-mindedness like yours that makes me ashamed of humanity in general.

[CenaW]

10:40 PM on 01/31/2012

Republicans and Lobbyists in training?

[CenaW]

11:02 PM on 02/01/2012

Deppends on which conservative lie you are pushing at any given moment;
either we are all ghetto African Americans and Illegla Immigrants
or
We are all college educated elitists.

[hopein2012]

07:38 PM on 02/04/2012

blah blah blah

[pennstudent]

10:37 PM on 01/31/2012

You want to know what's really messed up? Despite the scandal, UPenn's student government is going on to re-write the Alcohol Policy they were found to have been in violation of. THAT is much more of a scandal than the fact that they were found guilty of breaking the antihazing and alcohol policies. That story just keeps getting more and more ridiculous.

[bomland31]

10:30 PM on 01/31/2012

Obviously the Dartmouth kids are much more creative than those at Princeton.

[hopein2012]

07:39 PM on 02/04/2012

lol

[Lo Chiaro]

10:28 PM on 01/31/2012

The time and moment where Wall Street forms.

[Vapula]

10:24 PM on 01/31/2012

Going to an Ivy league school doesn't guarantee success and it quite often breeds snotty self absorbed types who think they can do no wrong.

[CabinAgue]

10:57 PM on 01/31/2012

And I guess not going to an Ivy leads to drawing sweeping conclusions about all who do?

[LDnearthesea]

11:12 PM on 01/31/2012

Well, it's what right-wingers do really well, drawing sweeping conclusions. Newt's an expert at it.

[loki]

10:16 PM on 01/31/2012

since most leaders in business, banking, wall street and many of the puppets in politics have Ivy League educations, it would literally take years to list all the bad things these people do. IF they dont start out evil, they soon are brainwashed to be that way upon enrollment in one of the Ivy Greed schools. Arrogance, superiority complex, narcissism, greed ,selfishness and cutting edge techniques on criminal acts to make huge profit are all the qualities that are instilled in students at these schools. But the most are hose in the business schools.

[CabinAgue]

11:02 PM on 01/31/2012

"most leaders in business, banking, wall street and many of the puppets in politics have Ivy League educations"

I'm not sure that this is true, statistically -- can you show that it is?

BUT -- let's just say that it is true, for the sake of your argument.  Your conclusion requires not what you said about where most leaders come from, but rather that the majority of those who attend the Ivy League schools end up in as those leaders and do all the bad things you suggest.  And I really don't think you can show any such thing, given the numbers and the diversity and the many different areas of study.

[LDnearthesea]

11:13 PM on 01/31/2012

Well, we do have some examples. Just look at Obama's predecessor.

[Ralphiec88]

11:52 PM on 01/31/2012

Aw, you're no fun. Trying to involve perspective and logic? We want wweeping generalizations supported by cherry picked facts!

[realpragmatist]

09:43 AM on 02/01/2012

Lots of Ivy League graduates, if they could, end up in these above mentioned jobs/positions, but there are substantial, even/especially good people who come from non-Ivy league backgrounds. Also please remember that very academically reputed and elite colleges like Cal Tech, MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley are not classified as an east coast Ivy League college.

My own kid got admission in Brown and Cornell, but chose Berkeley because of his interest in Biology research (after researching what they had to offer). He is one of the most grounded and nice 18-year olds that you can find - according to his school teachers and the parents of the girls in his high school class, when he was 16.

I am sure that he is not an exception and there are lots of students even in the Ivy Leagues like him. Like everywhere, you get the good with the bad, and intelligence and super accomplishment alone does not guarantee good ethical, empathetic person, as I am sure you know.

[taurus58]

10:10 PM on 01/31/2012

why dont we talk about Yales Skull/bones and what type of activity goes on there

[treabeton]

04:59 PM on 02/01/2012

We don't know. It's a secret society.

[flindbergconsult]

08:08 PM on 01/31/2012

as long as its there money not goverment money they can be the fools that they are